> On the issue of namespaces, in one view of a "full devfs", even
> having major,minor numbers as a namespace at all should go away, or
> at least become a historical distraction. The device *is* the vnode
> in the devfs.
I think that would be a mistake. I've too often had occasion to have
device files in unusual places in the filesystem. (Not all that often,
but often enough - maybe a half-dozen times in the two-plus decades
I've been a sysadmin.) Some of those could be handled with multiple
mounts of devfs, but some couldn't really. I think it would be a major
step backwards to lose the ability.
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